Are you ABSOLUTELY honest?

Yes I am honest as I believe that kind of behaviour only comes back to bite you another time -unless of course its golf related!!!

Many years ago my (late) husband found a wallet containing a large (for the time) sum of money, lying close to a busy railway station. There was no name in the wallet and no means of identifying the owner. He handed the wallet into the station lost property. He was asked to sign a form which he happily did and was given a slip of paper suggesting he call back into the office after a given time (I think it was 28 days?). Anyway a month or so passed and he called back into the office and was told that the wallet had not been claimed. We weren't very well off and I can only imagine his face, thinking that his honestly had paid off and we could treat the children to something nice.

Imagine his dismay when he was told that he had (unwittingly) signed a form saying that if the wallet failed to be claimed then the contents became the property of GNER and he had no claim. He did try to say that he wasn't told what he was signing and it did call into question whether (on this occasion) honesty paid.

Yes, am honest as the next person, as probably most are ( ah, but how honest is the next person?)
I always hand in money or found objects, do as you would be done by ( not do others!)

I think it depends on the circumstances. I have certainly handed in a large sum of used notes(about £100) that I found on the ground. The loser rang the police station while I was there, was told that someone was in the station handing it in and didn't express a word of gratitude, just said they would be in to collect it and rang off. Even the policeman on the desk was taken aback by the lack of thanks.

On the other hand I once went to an office stationers, bought two desk chairs and a lot of other stationery and when the till bill seemed a bit low I queried it and asked the till clerk whether he had rung up that I had bought two chairs not one. He was quite rude to me, saying he knew his job and I had an accurate bill.

When I got to the car and the staff member with the trolley with the chairs had loaded them into my car and I had packed the rest of my purchases in I sat in the car seat and checked my bill and I was right, I had only been charged for one chair, I then drove off. I felt that I had drawn the till clerk's attention to the fact I thought I had been undercharged. He rebutted my suggestion that this had happened quite rudely, so I drove off, more in temper than anything, and I still feel uneasy about having done it.

A family member had new garden furniture a few weeks ago and last week she had an e-mail to say it was arriving the next day. She rang the couriers who wanted no responsibility, they would still deliver. She rang the store, they had nothing on their computer showing an outstanding delivery. I told her just as above, you have notified them ,just let them discover their mistake and let them pick it up. As till today they have heard nothing.